Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A stream of water, often containing medicinal or cleansing agents, that is applied to a body part or cavity for hygienic or therapeutic purposes.
- n. A stream of air applied in a similar way.
- n. The application of a douche.
- n. An instrument for applying a douche.
- v. To cleanse or treat by means of a douche.
- v. To cleanse or treat oneself with a douche.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A jet or current of water or vapor applied to some part or a particular organ of the body, as in a bath or for medicinal purposes.
- n. An instrument for administering such a jet. Douches are differently formed and named, according to the parts for which they are designed: as, a nasal douche.
- To apply a douche to.
Wiktionary
- n. A jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally (especially in reference to vaginal irrigation.)
- n. Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense.
- n. A syringe used for that process.
- n. pejorative A douche bag.
- v. To use a douche.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A jet or current of water or vapor directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; a douche bath.
- n. (Med.) A syringe.
WordNet 3.0
- n. irrigation with a jet of water or medicated solution into or around a body part (especially the vagina) to treat infections or cleanse from odorous contents
- v. direct a spray of water into a bodily cavity, for cleaning
- n. a small syringe with detachable nozzles; used for vaginal lavage and enemas
Etymologies
- From French douche ("shower"), from Italian doccia ("shower"). (Wiktionary)
- French, shower, from Italian doccia, conduit, back-formation from doccione, pipe, from Latin ductiō, ductiōn-, act of leading, from ductus, past participle of dūcere, to lead; see deuk- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But then everyone, even 40-year-olds, started to use the term douche.”
“Once upon a time, the word douche meant a very specific substrata jackass.”
“And BS, if you can use the term douche as often as you do, why worry about being negative about douches?”
“Now I don't condone anger or violence, or even the use of the term douche bag, but what could possibly be the big deal, and why would someone feel the need to freak out over a simple request to cut an unnecessarily running engine in this day and age?”
Suzy Shuster: I Got Into a Fight With a Giant Douche Bag This Morning
“Among the war room heroes are such noble creatures as Warren Kinsella, a fellow whose name has appeared in more than one paragraph adjacent to the term douche bag.”
“Anyone calling Cory a "douche" is welcome at my house for beers, because he's ... well ... a douche!”
“I'm starting to get the feeling that some douche is flooding this site with requests.”
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“The douche is strong in congressman Hill, or in using Yoda voice,”
‘Baron’ is merely your *name*, Rep. Hill (D, IN-09). - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
“Trolls (with typos) are target practice what fucking douche is posting this bullshit on MCS its actually worse than all the conservative pictures combined”
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“BTW this douche is part of the "birther" group nut jobs .. you know the people who question President Obama's birth place .. google his name!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘douche’.
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Americanism
American words
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Not edible
Things that sound edible but are not (usually). See Liberty's To Eat, or Not to Eat? for more diet food.
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Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
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funny & derogatory
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
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truman486's list
Masterbatory Aids
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Cool sounding words
Stuff that either rolls off the tongue really well or sounds interesting.
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people (bad)
nouns for bad people / words that describe bad people.
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You douche.
Calling you an asshole would be a compliment!
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Kalli's Words
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Twitter faves
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for douche.

lampbane Penny Arcade (06/02/10):
"It's like vaginal mouthwash." Jun 8, 2010
eggoabbas This word also has a derogatory use which may actually outweigh its "legitimate" meaning. Jul 9, 2009
garyth123 Apparently a notorious example of a false friend. Feb 13, 2009
lampbane Some interesting things that come up on Google when you search for this word:
Is Michael Phelps a Douche? (Best Week Ever)
The Biggest Douche in the Universe (South Park episode)
Some douche steals Ian Curtis' (of Joy Division) headstone (BoingBoing article)
Douche and Turd (another South Park episode)
The Douche Vote (The Daily Show)
Sep 18, 2008